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Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility

Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility

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PhilosophyGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0791457176
ISBN13: 9780791457177
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 27 2003
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.

In Friendship, James O. Grunebaum introduces a new conceptual framework to articulate, explain, and understand similarities and differences between various conceptions of friendship. Asking whether special preference for friends is morally justified, Grunebaum answers that question by analyzing a comprehensive comparison of not only Aristotle's three well-known kinds of friendship-pleasure, utility, and virtue-but also a variety of lesser-known friendship conceptions from Kant, C. S. Lewis, and Montaigne. The book clarifies differences about how friends ought to behave toward each other and how these differences are, in part, what separate the various conceptions of friendship.

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